US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on July 14 for "Grade angle estimation system based on three-dimensional map data" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,382, issued on July 14, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Grade angle estimation system based on three-dimensional map data" was invented by Mohammadali Shahriari (Markham, Canada), Kevin A. O'Dea (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Khizar Ahmad Qureshi (Pickering, Canada), Puneet Bagga (Etobicoke, Canada), Dhaval Kavindra Sompura (Canton, Mich.), Ashraf Abualfellat (Grand Blanc, Mich.) and Dmitriy Feldman (West Bloomfield, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A grade angle estimation system for estimating a grade angle of a roadway that a vehicle is driving along includes one or more controllers. The one or more contro...